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Other pre-pulsar like formations, such as 3 in a row instead of 2, also duplicate themselves like the others, but are not stable. | Other pre-pulsar like formations, such as 3 in a row instead of 2, also duplicate themselves like the others, but are not stable. | ||
Pre-pulsar require at least 7 cells to form. | |||
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| Pattern type | Miscellaneous | ||||||||
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| Number of cells | 16 | ||||||||
| Bounding box | 9 × 3 | ||||||||
| Static symmetry | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Discovered by | John Conway | ||||||||
| Year of discovery | 1970 | ||||||||
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The pre-pulsar is a common predecessor of the pulsar. It duplicates itself after 15 generations, although it fails to be a true replicator because of the way that the two copies then interact.
A pair of tubs can be placed to eat half of the pre-pulsar as it replicates; this gives the period-30 oscillator Eureka, where the pre-pulsar's replication becomes a movement back and forth. The replication of the pre-pulsar can also be made to occur in just 14 generations as half of it is eaten; this allows the construction of period 28 and period 29 oscillators. The pre-pulsar was a vital component in the construction of the first oscillators of periods 26, 28, 29, 47, and 55.
A skewed pre-pulsar is like a pre-pulsar, however, the pre-traffic lights it is composed of are vertically skewed by two cells. Despite this it manages to replicate itself and becomes two skewed halves of a pulsar. This form, however, is unstable and so is not truly a pulsar predecessor, but it can be hassled similarly to a normal pre-pulsar by oscillators and spaceships.
Other pre-pulsar like formations, such as 3 in a row instead of 2, also duplicate themselves like the others, but are not stable.
Pre-pulsar require at least 7 cells to form.
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See also
- Pre-pulsar shuttle
- Newshuttle
- p26 pre-pulsar shuttle
- p28 pre-pulsar shuttle
- p29 pre-pulsar shuttle
- p47 pre-pulsar shuttle
- p55 pre-pulsar hassler
- p58 pre-pulsar shuttle
- Pre-pulsar spaceship
- Twirling T-tetsons 2
External links
- Pre-pulsar at the Life Lexicon